Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

Like associates with like.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?